The biographical literature on Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya has to a large extent relied on her own memoirs, published in Vestnik Evropy only months before her death, and an autobiographical story published posthumously in Russkaya Starina. In this paper we present and discuss the full Russian text with English translation of a letter, previously unpublished, from Kovalevskaya's teacher in childhood and adolescence, Iosif Ignatyevich Malevich, to the editor of Russkaya Starina, Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky, in which he repudiates her depreciation of his role in her schooling, criticizes her self-portrayal, and provides information about her early education which runs counter to parts of the biographical literature on Kovalevskaya. Резюме Биографическая литература о Софье Васильевне Ковалевской опиралась в основном на её собственные воспоминания, опубликованные в Вестнике Европы всего за несколько месяцев до её смерти, и автобиографический рассказ, изданный посмертно в Русской Цтарине. Мы приводим полный русский текст и перевод на английский язык ранее неопубликованного письма учителя С. В. Ковалевской, обучавшего её в детском и юношеском возрасте, Иосифа Игнатьевича Малевича редактору Русской Цтарины Михаилу Ивановичу Семевскому. В этом письме И. И. Малевич утверждает, что Ковалевская незаслуженно принизила его роль как учителя в формировании и развитии ее способностей и критикует свою ученицу за самовосхваление. Его письмо проливает свет на домашнее обучение С. В. Ковалевской и предоставляет некоторые факты, которые противоречат существующей биографической литературе о С. В. Ковалевской.
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